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How Iran's Government Shut Off the Internet
After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens...
Scammers Are Exploiting a Firefox Bug to Freeze Your Browser
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out...
After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists...
The Air Force Will Embed Airmen at Carnegie Mellon University
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson expounds on surveillance, drones, and the cutting edge of plane-painting...
GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains
You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...
Intra Gives Older Versions of Android Important DNS Protections
Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw is using a new app to give DNS encryption protections to any Android smartphone from the last seven years...
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there...
The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy
Following the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican is preparing to organize a new conclave in less than 20 days. This is how they’ll tamp down on leaks...
Zero-Click Flaw Exposes Potentially Millions of Popular Storage Devices to Attack
A vulnerability categorized as “critical” in a photo app installed by default on Synology network-attached storage devices could give attackers the ability to steal data and worse...
Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands...
Senate Leaders Plan to Prolong NSA Surveillance Using a Must-Pass Bill
Top senate officials are planning to save the Section 702 surveillance program by attaching it to a crucial piece of legislation. Critics worry a chance to pass privacy reforms will be missed...
A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise
Though often viewed as the “crown jewel” of the US intelligence community, fresh reports of abuse by NSA employees and chaos in the US Congress put the tool's future in jeopardy...
The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place...
China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors
New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region...
Apple and Google Go Further Than Ever to Appease Russia
The tech giants have set a troubling new precedent...
6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked
You are your own biggest weakness, but changing just a few of your behaviors can reduce the chances that your online accounts get breached...
Google Docs Scams Still Pose a Threat
A 2017 worm caused havoc across the internet. One researcher is warning that despite new protections put in place, it could still happen again...
China Aims Its Propaganda Firehose at the BBC
The alleged digital operation has deployed hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the broadcaster's reporting...
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him...
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With Cryptocurrency
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals...
‘Retaliation’ for Russia's SolarWinds Spying Isn't the Answer
It will be hard pointing to a specific line the Kremlin crossed that the US hasn't crossed as well...
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations...
Why Insider ‘Zoom Bombs’ Are So Hard to Stop
Researchers have found that most calls to disrupt videoconferences originate with the participants, especially in high schools and colleges...
The Race to Preserve the DC Mob's Digital Traces
The pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol livestreamed their actions. As social media platforms scramble to remove dangerous content, what will become of all that footage?...
Was This Poker Player's Luck Too Good to Be True?
On this week’s Get WIRED podcast, features editor Mark Robinson talks to writer Brendan Koerner about an unconventional poker player and the woman who called him out...
Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not
Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning...
Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump
The president dismissed the widely respected cybersecurity agency director Tuesday night for pushing back against election disinformation...
Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree
Nice looking website you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone DDoS'd it...
Trump and the Limits of Content Moderation
The president’s televised encouragement of white supremacy and political violence was a reminder that social media didn’t create these problems...
The Election Threats That Keep US Intelligence Up at Night
Government officials have increasingly sounded alarms on the risks of foreign interference and disinformation campaigns leading up to—and after—November 3...
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s...
The International Playbook for Foiling Russian Interference
The Kremlin has meddled in so many elections that democracy’s immune system has gotten wise to its threats. Here are lessons other countries can teach us...
Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on MacOS
The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time...
Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election
Human rights organizations have blamed the Belarusian government for widespread outages...
The 'Super Smash Bros.' Community Reckons With Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Dozens of people have come forward over the past week, many pointing to a culture that they say enabled rampant predatory behavior...
Sneaky Mac Malware Is Posing as Flash Downloads
Plus: OnlyFans pirates, a nasty Netgear bug, and more of the week's top security news...
Games Don't Do Enough to Combat Toxicity at Launch
Riot Games has cutting-edge moderation tools at its disposal. Few of them are present in Valorant, which launched this week...
The Pentagon Hasn't Fixed Basic Cybersecurity Blind Spots
Five years ago, the Department of Defense set dozens of security hygiene goals. A new report finds that it has abandoned or lost track of most of them...
The US Blames Russia's GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia
By calling out Russia for digital assaults on its neighboring country, the US hopes to head off similar efforts at home...
Hackable Cisco Phones, a Locust Invasion, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
How to Watch Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial
The Senate gets set to debate the rules for Trump’s trial today. Tomorrow, the opening arguments begin...
Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid
A state-sponsored group called Magnallium has been probing American electric utilities for the past year...
Even If Rod Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation Status Quo Won't Last
Much of the speculation around deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein's fate misses how disruptive a post-midterms shake-up could be...
Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal
An appellate court puts the final seal on Ulbricht's life sentence, rejecting arguments about corrupt investigators and the injustice of his harsh sentence. The post Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal appeared first on WIRED...
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender...
You Don’t Need to Turn Off Apple’s NameDrop Feature in iOS 17
Yes, your iPhone automatically turns on NameDrop with the latest software update. But you shouldn’t really be worried about it—regardless of what the police are saying...
This New Tool Aims to Keep Terrorism Content Off the Internet
Small platforms without resources to handle takedown requests have been weaponized by terrorist groups that share their content online. A free new tool is coming to help clean house...
A Controversial Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Meets Fresh Scandal
An EU government body is pushing a proposal to combat child sexual abuse material that has significant privacy implications. Its lead advocate is making things even messier...
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden...